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Callahan's March 2001 Bar Rag!

"To Callahan's Warmth
Wherever You May Be!"

In this issue:

Opening Toast - Manager's Corner
Conference News - Message Board News
Birthdays - Joke - Poem
Closing Quote - Editor's Note -


Opening Toast

"To the Magic of Callahan's, which embraces time and place...
And to all the people who create it, who have created it, and who will create it. "

***************SMASH*****************

-- Elizabeth Kate (ELIZABETHKAT) Night Terrors


Manager's Corner

Hi all..

Our fourth annual Valentine's Day love poetry contest has come to an end. It yielded some wonderful poetry as you will see.. First prize (50 bucks!) and our congratulations went to RICHARD10936 for "Learning by a Narrow Light" and Elizabeth Kate wins second prize for her "Rite of Purification."

A note from Peter, our Poetry editor and contest judge:

"On a personal note, I want to thank all the poets who submitted to the contest and who enriched us all with their work. If you did not win, don't be discouraged. Every judge has personal tastes, and tastes differ. It is also possible that the judge is an idiot. His assistant in the judging process, Mary Edna, would be the best judge of that."

A reminder: Last month we started a 'gateway' page on an off site area for everyone to use to access Callahans. It's located on our 50megs site. I urge you all to visit the page and bookmark it.. and use it whenever you come to visit us. There are links on that page that bring you to our message board and conference rooms at Delphi..:)

I had a great time with our joint special conference with Singles. It was fun meeting the folks there and hopping back and forth between forums. I'm hoping we can do it again soon..:)

Lou


Conference News


Message Board News

CSTAR sent us the latest happenings at the message boards.

Somehow, somewhere on the board in February, we started talking about spoons. Teaspoons, to be specific, Callahanian teaspoons. Not only can they be used to move mountains, as David began teaching us long ago, but there are More Than 101 Uses for a Callahan's Spoon. Sylphidine (LIBRARYLION) started the thread, with ample suggestions fromTam_Za, newcomer (LADYLILY99), Pegasus (VE5CAP), David, bones, Roberta, Bee (RAWLINSON1), Plex (PLEXA) and others, the list has actually grown to more than 101 uses.

Bright said, "Hey--I just got a "Bright Idea" (patent pending--not to be confused with Great Idea.com). How's about we produce a Rainy-Day Activities book of 1001 things to do with a Callahan's memento spoon?" The last I checked, we were up to 105. Here are some of the suggestions for uses for a Callahanian teaspoon... can you think of more? We may make 1001 uses yet!

Stir up "stuff" Bright
measure pain and pleasure in easier-to-manage doses. Bright
knee percussion (requires 2 spoons--if you want to make a sound more than one hand clapping) Bright
earrings Bright
To mark accomplishments Peg
To unburden a friend Lily
To remember your strength Lily
To catch your tears in Lily
To remember David's courage...*****SMASH***** Lily
To remind us "its the little things" that count Lily
To get Lily out of the mud...thanks guys and gals! Lily
To use as an ornament on your nose. :-) bones
A utensil with which to seize the day. Sylphidine
A garden implement for a leprechaun.... Bee
String five together for some neat wind chimes... Bee
you can hang one on your nose to relieve ennui. Prettydark
To fling food in a food fight at the supper table. Helen
To catapult peanuts with! Catfantastic
A Callahan's spoon (because it's so shiny) could be used in place of a mirror... Burrose
As a light reflector or signaler to let your fellow hikers know where you are.
Or...to touch up your lipstick or mascara.
Or...to pull those unwanted chin hairs out.
Or...should I say nose hairs?
A Callahan's spoon can be used as a reflective surface for the periscope needed to find a book on the tessered bookshelves at Cal's! Elizabeth Kate

JP's looking for something, and I think it's magic. Help him out here, he's been looking everywhere!

Cstar took advantage of Ken's credit card in February, [Ed: so what's new?] by redecorating the entire bar. In a virtual flurry, she replaced the theater seats, assigning the design and installation of the new appointments to Pegasus, David and bones, chose the wood for new tables, picked new chairs, decided to do the walls in a textured light and dark paneling with some wild and peaceful paint colors; considered the advantages of Smuggled Khashmiri rugs over Rexemmklslkern from shhhh... (Grey got it...) with Bob Hall (WEREDRAGON) in Floors, assigned all future music decisions to Jedi Goodknight (IMAGINES) as the new head of live musical entertainment; changed the pool into a soft coral reef (pretty like coral, but "spongy"), added new pool tables, and caused just a "little bit of trouble" in the Library. Who's in trouble? Why, the GreyLensman (PHOTO11) of course!

Or will Cstar be in trouble, once Ken starts seeing all those charges show up on his credit card? Yikes!


Birthdays Last Month

Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:

JP   JP8   February 7
Elizabeth Kate   ELIZABETHKAT   February 11
Chad   SHEAR2   February 11
Clurichaun   CLURICHAUN   February 19
Chris   LARDARON   February 28

Joke of The Month

Comprehending Engineers, -- Take One

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys?"

"We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him."

"Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"

The greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."

The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."

The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them."

The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"

-- cump (MERRITT9)


Poem of the Month - "Staring Eyes"

The day is done, the work is done
The farmer sits in his kitchen
The gnarled hands tell of his life
The life of tending his flock
He stares, in blankness of the day
That day which will remain
A day which will stand out in all
the days of walking through fields
Full of the soft bleating lambs
Where once they played and leapt
The sound of the empty field
Though birds sing, deathly silence
rains upon the green meadows
That were alive, now a shadow
He stares, and turns from the view
The curtain closed, on that day

-- © 2001~Karisma~ March 25, 2001

And speaking of poetry...

Congratulations to Pretty Dark for her honorable mention in the February IBPC poetry competition for her poem, "True-be Red" or "I Used To Be Snow White, but I Drifted."
Congrats, Pretty Dark!


Closing Quote

"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."

- Unknown


Editor's Note

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